Writing advice, publication opportunities, and thoughts on books, language, and life from Donna Volkenannt, winner of the Erma Bombeck Humor Award. Donna believes great stories begin in a writer's imagination and touch a reader's heart.

How interesting as I would like to have those 5 copies to share westerns with folks around here. Think the Cowboys and Aliens will arouse a western out of all of us? I am on my way to the shower where I hope inspiration will flow out the faucet!

What a great way to work with your writing to enter this. I have never tried writing western but I think I may give it a try. I appreciate you so much for coming by and giving me such good advice.I am really looking forward to getting to know you better because my love for writing has been locked away so long and I am trying to let it out so hopefully sites and writers like yourself will be the muse I so needLoveMaggie

Donna, I have been thinking about this all afternoon. Finally sat down and began. It is so amazing that once an idea begins to form it just goes its own route like a mouse turned loose in a cheese factory. I can't control the thing! What fun, and since it is 107 but feels 112, writing is a good thing to do!

Hey Claudia, don't tell me it's STILL that hot there!! We actually had "cool" temps today. I am NOT a fiction writer, and definitely NOT a western, fiction writer....but you know what? I CAN write a story with a photo prompt, so count me in!! Thanks, Donna. I saw this over at the Cactus Country blog, too!

I watched the movie on Saturday where newlyweds, Lucy and Ricky, drove through the Rockies with a trailer hooked up to the back of their convertible. She took a big rock from everywhere they stopped because she was going to line her new driveway with them. Soon the trailer was so loaded down it wouldn't budge. I collect rocks from travels because of that movie. But I learned a lesson from Lucy and just pick up little ones. I bet if I thought about it, I learned a lot from Lucy.

"Time Will Tell" in Mysteries of the Ozarks, Vol V, from Ozark Writers Inc.

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